Whether you are bringing together a new collaboration or team, or agreeing the organisational design elements for a future restructure, sometimes independent professional facilitation helps.
We are there for you in those critical moments when all voices need to be heard and you need alignment and action. Our experienced senior facilitators help create safe spaces that allow difficult topics to be fully addressed.
As a part of this we can plan and facilitate specific meetings, such as project collaboration, transition planning, stakeholder negotiations and supplier networks.
I learned how much ground could be covered in one and a half days!
Setting up a new collaboration, team or joint venture? We’ll help facilitate the joint purpose and behaviours and set up the group for success.
When a consensus needs to be reached, whether through a new organisation structure, the future of a project or similar, we’ll help.
For when you know you need to talk about that elephant in the room, but you’re not yet at mediation stage. Let’s talk it through.
Whether creating a new future or exploring potential challenges, we’ll create the space for diverse thinkers to work together effectively.
Get clarity on history, outcomes and outputs
Set up for success and agree flexibility.
Check logistics and communications, and deliver!
Influence: A great facilitator has to understand and manage the influence they personally have in the room. We all come with pre-conceived ideas, biases and judgements as we are human after all, but to create a safe space to make the most of a group, a facilitator needs to know how to put these to one side.
Energy: Facilitation needs to play with the energy in the room. Knowing when to care enough to bite your tongue and let the conversation continue, and when to introduce a different activity or intervention is something that comes with reflection and experience.
Toolkit: A facilitator’s toolkit isn’t just pens, post-its and flipcharts (although of course these help), but theories, methods, techniques and phrases that help set the group up for success.
I love your facilitation style. – Morgan Sindall
Here are a selection of questions you might like to consider in advance of the session:
You always push us until we are absolutely certain of our thinking and position. – BECBC
We help develop project teams, through facilitating goal focus, team alignment, scope definition and LFE events to improve project performance.
When you are bringing together new project teams, or Joint Ventures, we’ll work with you to build on strengths and alignment to build true collaboration.
Clarity and alignment on goals, purpose, expectations
Build high value strategic relationships
Develop skills, confidence and behaviours
Stakeholder engagement, coaching, communications, etc
Being based in the beautiful Lake District, we also love to use the outdoor spaces around us to help with accelerating teams. We are equally as at home on the water, on the hills, onsite or online. We’ll collaborate with you to make it safe yet challenging, depending on the current circumstances.
Thank you – you helped us build the leadership team that is working so well during this crisis.
To chat about facilitation to help collaborations and teams operate more effectively.